Recently, some netizens posted on PTT that in recent years, major mobile phone manufacturers have used algorithms to correct and make up for gaps, and even added details to improve the fineness of the screen. This made the moderator of the Po article worried. Businesses are going in the direction of AI algorithms to improve shooting performance, so that mobile phone photos lose their authenticity.
AI adds content that doesn’t exist
The netizen Po Wen said that some mobile phone manufacturers have been questioned by users for “shooting the moon” before. Whether the photos taken are reasonable modifications, such as beautification and skin smoothing, or are they fake. Recently, Google launched the Magic Editor function, using generative artificial intelligence technology, as long as you press and hold the object or person in the picture, Magic Editor can identify the object, after the intended dragging movement, the artificial intelligence will automatically generate content to fill the space after the subject moves , which is tantamount to a kind of “secondary creation”, which appropriately supplements the required content according to the content of the original photo, so that the photo does not look inconsistent.
In the demonstration photos of Google’s product launch a few days ago, it can be seen that generative AI is used to supplement details that are not in the original photos, such as benches, floors, stones, and sky. Presumably other mobile phone manufacturers will follow suit in the future, and people can’t help but worry about whether mobile phone photography will still be authentic in the future when the AI P picture P is too fierce.
Netizens have a negative opinion
In response to the questions raised by the original Po, netizens expressed dissatisfaction: “It’s a fake, it’s the same as using a beauty face”, “In the future, I don’t need a camera, the built-in AI calculation map on the mobile phone is enough”, “The advertising photos are not real. Yes, all of them have been PS”, “Muscles are also sprayed with medicine, it’s not real”, “The bag in my hand is also COOO’s”. Some netizens also lamented: “Now the pictures are not equal to the truth”, “The direction of our efforts is to make the lens restore the real picture as much as possible, instead of using PS to retouch pictures to live in a false world.”
When admiring the stunning night scenes, shallow depth-of-field photos or stars in the night sky taken by mobile phones over the years, have you ever wondered whether this is the optical effect presented by the lens and sensor or the content created by generative AI? When every mobile phone manufacturer is increasingly relying on AI algorithms to increase the quality of photos, rather than through optics, is this a kind of “magic trick”? Is this mobile phone photography development in the right direction? Feel free to talk to us about your ideas.